Group    From 1972 

Lissenden Gardens Tenants Association

Categories: Community / Clubs

When we first researched this area in 2008 there were three plaques erected by the LGTA; others were erected later so we had to go back.  The first three plaques all end with the text "Awards for all". This reminds us of the Dodo in Alice in Wonderland: "Everybody has won and all must have prizes". It seems a particularly perverse motto for plaques, which by their very nature are erected for the select few. However, it actually indicates that the Lottery grants scheme of that name has, at least partially, funded the plaque.

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This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Lissenden Gardens Tenants Association

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Alice Zimmern

Alice Zimmern, 1855 - 1939, pioneering advocate for women's education and suf...

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Anthony Green

Lissenden Gardens Tenants Association Anthony Green, R.A., artist, lived her...

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Haydn Wood

Haydn Wood, 1882 - 1959, composer, a much-loved master of British light music...

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James Hanley

James Hanley, 1897 - 1985, novelist and playwright, lived here. Lissenden Gar...

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Martin Shaw

Martin Shaw, O.B.E., 1875 - 1958, composer, quiet revolutionary of English mu...

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Other Subjects

Wolf Club

Wolf Club

Used to meet at The Coal Hole in the Strand. In about 1826 Edmund Kean was a leading founder member.  Qualification for membership: being forbidden by your wife to sing in the bath.  So the club ch...

Group, Community / Clubs

1 memorial
Rainbow Corner

Rainbow Corner

Club for the American forces in the UK during WW2. Also known as the American Red Cross Club. This is where those "oversexed, overpaid and over here" GIs hung out. From British History online: The...

Building, Armed Forces, Community / Clubs

1 memorial
Mog Murphy

Mog Murphy

Eccentric landlady of the Turk's Head Wapping during WW2 - stayed open all hours for service personnel seeking news of their loved ones.

Person, Commerce, Community / Clubs

1 memorial
Lewisham Locality Fund

Lewisham Locality Fund

Fund provided by Lewisham Council for groups and organisations who can deliver projects which improve the Lewisham Central area.

Group, Community / Clubs

1 memorial

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Princess Alexandra, Lady Ogilvy

Princess Alexandra, Lady Ogilvy

Granddaughter of King George V and daughter of George, Duke of Kent. Born Alexandra Helen Elizabeth Olga Christabel at 3 Belgrave Square. Seems to specialise in infrastructure plaques - she must ha...

Person, Royalty

4 memorials
Zaehnsdorf bookbinders

Zaehnsdorf bookbinders

From the research published by the Seven Dials Trust: "Zaehnsdorfs was founded in London in 1841 by Joseh Zaehnsdorf. In 1862 he received an honourable mention at the London International Exhibitio...

Group, Commerce, Craft / Design

1 memorial
Queen Adelaide

Queen Adelaide

As the wife of King William IV, Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen was our queen and Queen of Hanover, 1830-7. She was married in 1818 and in 1819 the royal household moved from Germany to England and use...

Person, Royalty

3 memorials
Metrina/Metrine
1 memorial